Cascade Locks Historical Museum

12/06/2025

Come get those educational holiday gifts at the Holiday Marketplace! We are set up until 4pm with crafts and gifts 🎁

12/02/2025

Donate local this .

Keep your impact close to home this season by supporting the nonprofits that strengthen our community. Just like “shop local” keeps small businesses thriving, donating local ensures your dollars stay right here: lifting up neighbors, preserving our history, caring for our shared spaces, and building the kind of community we’re proud to call home. When you give where you live, everyone benefits.

Donate "small" this and get the “major donor” treatment. When you give to small, local nonprofits, your donation doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. It makes a direct, immediate impact. These organizations run lean, stretch every dollar, and pour their energy into meeting real needs right here at home. A modest gift can fund a whole project, support a vital service, or keep a beloved program going. Small nonprofits make big things happen, and your support helps them do even more.

Donate to Cascade Locks-area nonprofits:
Cascade Locks Historical Museum: https://www.cascadelocksmuseum.org/
Cascade Locks Elementary PTO: https://www.cascadelockspto.com/
Cascade Locks Fire: https://cascadelocksfire.com/
Catscade Locks Feline Rescue: https://www.catscadelocks.com/
FISH Food Bank: https://www.fish-food-bank.com/
Friends of the Gorge: https://gorgefriends.org/
Gorge Canoe Club: https://www.gorgecanoeclub.com/
Gorge Grown: https://gorgegrown.com/
Main Street Cascade Locks: https://www.mainstreetcascadelocks.org/
Northwest Trail Alliance: https://secure.nw-trail.org/campaigns/year-end-2025 (Add a note to your donation, "Donation for Cascade Locks Trails")

11/27/2025

One week to go until our community night at Thunder Island Brewing! Join us Wednesday 12/3 from 6-8pm for a BOGLOG and to kick off a year of centennial celebration for our historic bridge 🍾

11/27/2025

One week until our Community Night at Thunder Island Brewing Company! Come on out and help us kick off a year of celebrating the Bridge of the Gods.

11/25/2025

Sneak peak of some of the digital tools we're playing with!

Join Janice Crane, museum executive director, and David McCurry, bridge engineer, on Wednesday, December 3, at 6pm at the Thunder Island Brewing Company Community Night supporting Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum for the most fun/nerdiest pub talk EVER all about the Bridge of the Gods.

We'll talk some history, we'll talk some engineering, we'll crowd-source some mysteries, and we'll preview the upcoming exhibit "Riveting History: A Centennial Celebration of the Bridge of the Gods." This exhibit has both an online exhibit set to go live soon and a traveling exhibit heading to the Oregon State Capitol in 2026. We'll wrap up by chatting about all the fun stuff planned for the Bridge of the Gods' 100th birthday in the fall of 2026 🥳

Image description: slider GIF of a birds-eye view of the Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks. 1930 photo from an aerial survey conducted by PGE juxtaposed with a screenshot from Google Earth in 2025.

RSVP to the event to get reminders: https://www.facebook.com/share/14TAU6qBu4T/

10/31/2025

Our number one tour guide Ash Nelson did special Halloween flashlight tours today! 🔦

Thanks to everyone who came to see us today. If you didn't make it, here's a taste of what you missed. Have a happy and fun and safe Halloween! 🎃

10/30/2025

Come on out and celebrate the last day of museum season with us tomorrow from 2-4!

SPOOKY FLASHLIGHT TOURS THIS NO. SCHOOL. FRIDAY. HALLOWEEN!!!!! 🎃

Celebrate the end of museum season by getting lit 🔦 with junior decent Ash Nelson and explore some of the macabre facts about Cascade Locks history. Free admission from 2-4pm, bring your flashlight and make the museum your first stop on your Cascade Locks Halloween circuit.

The Cascade Locks Historical Museum closes seasonally from November 1- February 28. Celebrate the last day with us in spooky style!

10/24/2025

SPOOKY FLASHLIGHT TOURS THIS NO. SCHOOL. FRIDAY. HALLOWEEN!!!!! 🎃

Celebrate the end of museum season by getting lit 🔦 with junior decent Ash Nelson and explore some of the macabre facts about Cascade Locks history. Free admission from 2-4pm, bring your flashlight and make the museum your first stop on your Cascade Locks Halloween circuit.

The Cascade Locks Historical Museum closes seasonally from November 1- February 28. Celebrate the last day with us in spooky style!

10/06/2025

🎉💙 What a night! 💙🎉

Our Casino Cruise was a full house of fun, laughter, and generosity—all thanks to YOU! From rolling the dice to dancing the night away, you showed up in style and went all-in for our community.

Because of your incredible support, we not only met our fundraising goal—we exceeded it! Together, we raised over $16,000 to support the Cascade Locks Historical Museum and the Cascade Locks PTO. 🥂

A huge thank you to our sponsors, prize donors, volunteers, and every guest who joined us aboard the Sternwheeler Columbia. Your generosity helps keep local history alive and strengthens education for our kids.

We couldn’t have done it without you. Until next time—cheers to a winning night for Cascade Locks! 🎲🛳️✨

10/04/2025

✨ Celebrate Community with Us! ✨

On the day of our annual fundraiser cruise, we open the doors of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum for FREE admission! 🏛️

Come explore the stories, artifacts, and history that make Cascade Locks so special. Whether you’re a longtime supporter or a first-time visitor, we invite you to connect with the past, celebrate our present, and look forward to our future—together.

📅 TODAY 10/4/2025, 10am-4pm
📍 Cascade Locks Historical Museum

Your visit helps us honor the rich history of our Gorge community, and we can’t wait to see you! 💙

Join us aboard the sternwheeler after for the Casino Cruise! Online ticket sales will close this morning so we can finalize our event check-in list. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door for $85 per person.

10/03/2025

🌟 All In for Our Sponsors! 🌟

As we get ready to launch the unforgettable Casino Cruise, we want to give a round of applause to the amazing sponsors who made this night possible. From our Platinum powerhouses to every business and individual who contributed, your generosity helped us deal a winning hand for education and community in Cascade Locks.

Because of you, we were able to create a night full of fun, laughter, and good fortune—all while raising support for our local students and programs. 🎲❤️

Thank you for going all in with us—we couldn’t have done it without you!

09/28/2025

Amazing support from our friends at Whiskey Flats Tavern! ❤️

♠️♥️ CASINO NIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ♣️♦️

The Whiskey Flats crew will be in attendance at next weekends Casino Night fundraiser benefitting the PTO and the Historical Museum!

🚨This means we will be CLOSING AT 4:00 PM SATURDAY OCTOBER 4TH 🚨

It would be amazing to see as much support at this event as possible, so we’d like to extend the offer of covering $20 towards the ticket of any local resident who would like to attend. Stop by the Tavern any day this week while tickets last and we will help you out. And to sweeten the deal, free WFT trucker hat with ticket purchase!

We hope to get fancy with y’all this weekend!